Brisbane Child Rapist Case Delayed After Confronting Video

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Posted on October 24, 2018

Sentencing for a Queensland child rapist has been delayed because the judge was so shaken by video of the assaults she needed a break to ensure a fair sentence.

Jason Daron Mizner has already pleaded guilty to more than 60 child sex offences relating to a two-year-old girl, from the early 2000s, including more than 30 counts of rape and video taping the assaults.

In the Brisbane District Court on Tuesday, Justice Leanne Clare said she had viewed a portion of one of the tapes and found it "very confronting."

"I think it would be best to put some distance between the viewing of that tape and the delivery of the judgment so that it does not overwhelm the sentence," Justice Clare said, adjourning proceedings until Friday.

The prosecution wants the 44-year-old jailed for life.

But Mizner's lawyers argued his years in prison in Thailand for a separate sexual assault of another young child there should be taken into account, because of the "torture" he suffered at the hands of other inmates while incarcerated.

"He received beatings and other torture, partly in relation to (the Australian) offending," Mizner's lawyer said.

"The Australian Federal Police gave evidence at the (Thai) hearing about the Australian offending, so it's not much of a stretch that inmates in Thailand would have known."

SERIAL sex-offender Jason Mizner is still being sentenced in the district court for raping a two-year-old. His defence lawyer is currently debating the risk of reoffending, saying he’s not a serious danger & wants treatment. Below is a comment just made by Judge Leeanne Clare. pic.twitter.com/0NA3zbcnSQ